1970: Mary Hopkin, ‘Knock, Knock, Who’s There?’
Welsh folk singer Hopkin gave the UK another second place at Eurovision, after a string of hit singles including Goodbye (written and produced by Paul McCartney).
After she married top producer Tony Visconti in 1971, she withdrew from the limelight, but still sang on several albums he produced, including David Bowie’s Low. After a late-Seventies comeback, she joined a group called Oasis (not the Gallaghers’ band), and sang on Vangelis’s soundtrack for Blade Runner. She is still recording, and released her last studio album in 2013.
In 2018, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her break out single Those Were the Days, produced by Paul McCartney, Hopkin released a new acoustic version of the track.
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Eurovision s greatest ever song announced as fans say they want Adele to represent UK
Bucks Fizz, Brotherhood of Man and Cliff Richard came closest but there s no stopping Abba, with nearly half of those asked picking Waterloo as their go-to Eurovision song.
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Abba hit Waterloo has been voted the best Eurovision song entry of all time, according to research.
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Updated: 21 May 2021, 16:29
ABBA S Waterloo has been voted the best Eurovision song entry of all time, according to research.
A study of 2,000 adults found the Swedes’ legendary hit - which also gave the band their first number one in the UK chart – was most popular with 50 per cent of respondents.
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Abba s Waterloo has been voted the best Eurovision song entry of all time according to a new studyCredit: Getty - Contributor
However, the top 10 is dominated with UK hits, and Making your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz is preferred by a third of adults.
Save your Kisses for Me by Brotherhood of Man took third place, while Cliff Richard’s ‘Congratulations’ came fourth.
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Gina G and her backing band on stage in Wembley Arena
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Twenty five years ago this week, one of the UK’s most infectious and incongruous Eurovision Song Contest entries was watched by 300 million people around the world. Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit was a slice of hi-NRG Euro-trance with a galloping bassline and an earworm chorus, performed by Australian Gina G. The flame-haired singer delivered the song wearing a gold disc mini dress initially made for Cher to a stunned crowd in Oslo, a crowd more used to saccharine ballads and soft pop numbers.
The UK ended up finishing eighth in the competition, which takes place this Saturday in Rotterdam. But Ooh Aah went on to become a global smash and earned a Grammy nomination. Gina G became a household name. In the UK alone, Ooh Aah stayed in the charts for 27 weeks, becoming an inescapable anthem in the heady summer of 1996 when England almost triumphed in the Euros. Even Britpop-loving NME called the song a “fren
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